Year: 2016

When cleaning up drive space, the first thing I do is remove the ‘obj’, ‘bin’, and ‘packages’ directories from my development directories. They are temporary and will be rebuilt the next time I build the related project. Because I end up with a lot of little test & sample projects that I don’t refer to…

Did it occur to you that an infinite loop, with async/await inside it, isn’t really an infinite loop? It looks like one (which is usually bad) but because of the asynchrony, we know that it isn’t executing the entire method at one time. Part executes now, then sometime later it periodically resumes – that sounds kind…

Often, when someone asks “how does this async await stuff actually work”? There is a lot of hand waving or someone says “just use reflection and look at it” but the real compiled code is a complex recursive state machine. So I want to show a (relatively) simplified example that isn’t the real thing but…